The author mentioned that Palm's new OS is a huge hit, but why was there no mention of Android in the same paragraph? It has stormed the cell phone market across several carriers and has brought a new "hybrid" model of software that is partially open source to the table. How is this not a bigger deal than Palm's OS? Palm has been making mobile operating systems and placing them on phones for years; this is hardly new.

There are countless backup generators and numerous failsafes that will safely redirect the beam into one of the many beam dumps, which are basically big blocks of concrete.

The worst that can happen: all of the failsafes fail, backup generators fail, and the LHC damages itself, requiring several years of repairs. That's the biggest disaster that the LHC could possibly ever produce. Keep in mind, it's already 100 meters underground, a length through which the particle beam couldn't penetrate even if it somehow scattered straight upward.

Actually, most engineering tools are designed by scientists and improved upon by engineers. Scientists tend to invent things that work well enough, engineers tend to improve them.

Arizona State is a shit school anyway, U OF A!

Then tax the university, don't tax the students who have no disposable income. If the university is really the problem here, then why are you supporting a tax on the students?

Haven't we already established that the university employs its own private police and fire force, like most universities? I find it hard to believe that they don't pay for water and sewage; you're going to have to prove that.

1) Pittsburgh the city is doing this, and they have no say on state university fees or funding

2) That money actually goes to the CA universities, rather than the cities in which these universities reside. Raising fees is a silly way of raising tuition without calling it tuition

He never said any of that, you twit. Taxing people who don't have any disposable income doesn't make any sense; all it does is force them out of the city, so in the end you don't earn any money AND you lose all of the additional tax revenue that those students provide just by coming to your city.

The majority of people support public health care according to every public poll that doesn't mention the mythical death panels, so you're wrong

You blame the Democrats for this without recognizing the fact that the state's Constitution required them to fund the ballot initiatives that are bankrupting the state.

As for any other spending increases, you can lay equal blame at the Democrats and Republicans of CA, you ignorant twit

Is this a problem? I don't mind inserting a disc to watch a movie, even if that movie is streamed, so long as a better solution is in the works.

According to the Joystiq interview, it was much faster to develop an application on a blueray disc and use that for the streaming application than to develop an embedded application for the PS3. The people at Netflix are implying that there was never an exclusive deal with the 360; the marketing people at Microsoft took the liberty of using "exclusive" despite the lack of any exclusivity agreement. Can't really fault them for that

Countless "exclusive" 360 games are released on the PC a few months later. It's a marketing gimmick to get consumers to believe that their system is the only one to offer service X or game Y when those same products will be available shortly on another system.

Kentucky? Please look at a map sometime

You're receiving a substantial discount for a family plan. It's not a fair comparison. That same plan for a single individual would cost at least twice as much and would carry a much smaller phone subsidy.

This is a complete lie. Drive between two major cities in the southwest US and you will almost always lose coverage

Having just spent a summer in Europe, bread is actually cheaper there